Clinker-breaking machine.



G. M. GILL.

OLINKER BREAKING MACHINE. APPLIOATION Mm D- FEB. 24, 1913.

1,100,476. Patented June 16,191s

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEOFFREY MURTON GILL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CLINKEB-BREAKING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEOFFREY MURTON GILL, subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Commercial Gas 00., Ltd, VVapping, London, England, have invented a Clinker-Breaking Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines whereby the clinker formed in the furnaces of gas producing plants may be broken up into small pieces that can be raked out of the furnaces from beneath the furnace bars, the machine being adapted to perform with rapidity and efficiency an operation that has hitherto been carried out by manual labor under the most irksome conditions, but the machine is adapted to be used with any furnaces.

The machine comprises a wheeled carriage adapted to support a cylinder containing a piston by means of which a reciprocating movement is imparted to a breaking down tool, the cylinder being mounted in a swiveling manner, so that the tool can be displaced angularly both in the horizontal and vertical directions.

A clinker breaking machine is illustrated as operated hydraulically in the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away to show the piston, Fig, 2 is a plan of the Whole device, and Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the swivel arrangement.

In the machine illustrated by these figures, pressure fluid is admitted by means of an inlet pipe a to a valve device I), which regulates the supply of this fluid alternatively to a pipe 0 or pipe 0 which deliver fluid alternatively to the opposite ends of a cylinder (Z, and permit the evacuation of fluid therefrom, the valve device I) being controlled by means of a hand lever e. The cylinder d contains a piston al the rod (Z of which is reciprocated by means of the pressure fluid, whereby the movements of the piston are imparted to a breaking down tool, which may be of any shape, but preferably consists as shown of a stem f of a circular cross-section, terminating at its outer end in a cruciform head g and secured to the piston rod d The fluid is exhausted through a pipe h, which may lead back to the source of supply.

The cylinder at is mounted on a carriage j provided with wheels is, k, so that the machine may be wheeled by hand from one Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 24, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 750,309.

furnace to' another as required. The ma chine is provided with means whereby it may be securely anchored when in position, these means comprising two chains Z, Z at the front of the carriage, these chains having hooks adapted to engage eyes on on the furnace front as shown. There is provided a device at the rear by means of which the machine is anchored to the ground. This device consists of two shackles a, a connected by hooks to eyes on the ground, and having turn-buckles by means of which the tension of the whole anchoring device can be adjusted.

The cylinder 03 is clamped in a clamp 0 which is mounted upon a cross-bar 0 sup ported upon vertical guides c on each side, the cross-bar being held down by bolts it directly above it at each side of the carriage. The clamp 0 has downwardly extending arms 0 by which it is pivoted by horizontal bolts 'w on upstanding arms 39 of a yoke 29, pivoted upon a vertical bolt 9 on the crossbar 0 the yoke being movable in a horizontal direction about this bolt, so that the cylinder may be swiveled from side to side. The movements of the cylinder are effected by means of a handle 1", both this handle and the valve lever e being controlled by the one workman required to operate the machine.

In order that the machine may be adapted to operate in furnaces having grates of various heights, the cross-bar 0 is adjustably mounted. The clamp 0 and cross-bar 0 may rest upon bolts it passed through holes in adjacent guides v on each side of the carriage. By the withdrawal of the bolts u the cross-bar 0 may be raised or lowered and the bolts passed through other holes in the guide.

When in the lowest position, as shown, the cross-bar 0 rests upon lower U-shaped distance pieces 0 which separate the adjacent guides 12.

I claim:

1. In a clinker breaking machine, a wheeled carriage, vertical guides on said carriage, a cross-bar supported on said guides, a yoke pivoted about a vertical axis on said cross-bar, upstanding arms on said yoke, a clamp, downwardly directed arms on said clamp pivoted about a horizontal axis on said upstanding arms, a cylinder held in said clamp, a reciprocating piston in said cylinder, a rod on said piston, a breaking upstanding arms, a cylinder held in said clamp, a reciprocating piston in said cylinder, a rod on said piston, a breaking down tool secured to said rod and hand operated means for controlling the direction and extent of the reciprocation of said piston, piston-rod and breaking down tools.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 'two subscribing Witnesses.

GEOFFREY MURTON GILL. Witnesses:

O. J. WORTH, H. V, VAGHORN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five dents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washing-ton, D. C. 

